Beyond a western bioethics : voices from the Developing World /
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2001. |
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| Description: | xiv, 162 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | [Clinical medical ethics series] Clinical medical ethics (Washington, D.C.) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4510429 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- From Western to Filipino Bioethics: An Acknowledgment in Gratitude for Having Been a Colleague in a Marvelous Intellectual and Moral Journey
- Western Bioethics Recondsidered: An Introduction
- Part I. Filipino Bioethics: The Foundations
- An Introduction to an Authenticallyy Non-Western Bioethics
- Part II. The Role Of The Family
- The Family and Health Care Practices
- The Family versus the Individual: Family Planning
- Care of the Elderly
- Part III. The Health Care Team
- Professional Relationships in Health Care
- Conscience and Health Care Practices: The Casde of the Philippines
- Honesty, Loyalty, and Cheating
- Philanthropy and Nepotism
- Part IV. Facing Hard Choices
- Ethical Issues in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- AIDS in the Developing World: The Case of the Philippines
- Human Organ Transplants
- Death and Dying
- Part V. Allocation And Justice
- Allocation of Scarce Resources: macro-, Meso-, and Micro-Level Concerns
- Ethical Issues in Research
- A Tax on Luxury Health Cae, Generic Drugs, and a Proposal for a New Preferential Option for the Poor
- The Virtues and Vices of Dumping
- Appendix/Background Readings
- In the Compassion of Jesus: A Pastoral Letter On AIDS: The Catholic Bishop's Conference of the Philippines
- Anti-Abortive Drugs Act of 1995: Tenth Congress of the Republic of the Philippines
- The Patients' Rights Act of 1995: Tenth Congress of the Republic of the Philippines
- Code of Ethics: Board of medicine
- The Philippines
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Index 710 KIRO
